Maxim Gorky

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.