"Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement."

“Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs”

“I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.”

“Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.”

“For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me”

“I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org

“We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb talks to the cast of A Dirty Shame!". movieweb.com. September 13, 2004.

“Chess is not for timid souls.”