"It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave."

“I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.”

“Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.”

“An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.”

Source : "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

“I don't have you, and without you, it feels like what I do have doesn't matter.”

“The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.”

“My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.”

“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.”

“It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.”