I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
