1. “I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.”
2. “I know that I am one and I’ve made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I’m not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.”
3. “Patriotism is considered to be a person ought to feel. Burt why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s?.”
4. “It’s obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problems is we are not superior.”
5. “As writers, we can’t predict who might come along who might fid our offerings valuable.”
6. “In terms of number of movies I’ve been in a extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I’m onscreen, it’s not so long.”
7. “I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.”
8. “Who says one instance of writing has anything common with another instance?.”
9. “I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is suppose to be or why they’re laughing.”
10. “Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.”
11. “My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”
12. “Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!”
13. “I never planned to be an actor. It turned out that I could make a living doing it.”
14. “The life of an actor can be very enviable.”
15. “In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don’t think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.”
16. “I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.”
17. “Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.”
18. “I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.”
19. “There’s nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don’t keep a regular schedule and every day is a different. It’s all rather chaotic.”
20. “I have been vain since birth.”
