Actor

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Kita dilahirkan sendiri, kita hidup sendiri, kita mati sendiri. Hanya melalui cinta dan persahabatan kita dapat ciptakan ilusi untuk sejenak bahwa kita tidak sendirian.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Ekstasi sebenarnya bukan bagian dari adegan yang bisa kita lakukan pada seluloid.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Saya memiliki cinta dan rasa hormat yang besar terhadap agama, cinta yang besar dan rasa hormat terhadap ateisme. Yang saya benci adalah agnostisisme, orang yang tidak memilih.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I have no great message to the world.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

Tipe Amerika yang ideal diekspresikan dengan sempurna oleh Protestan, individualis, anti-konformis, dan ini adalah tipe yang sedang dalam proses menghilang. Kenyataannya hanya sedikit yang tersisa.