“You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze...”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

“You only grow when you are alone.”

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life ...”

“There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

“...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”

“Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.”

“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”

“Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”

“Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.”

“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”