I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.
One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
