“Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”

“Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”

“Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.”

“Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”

“Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.”

“The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.”

“I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.”

“I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.”

“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”

“No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.”

“A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.”