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.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

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

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.

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