Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.
Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.
Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.