Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Let silence be the art you practice.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.