"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change."

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'"

"I love audiences."

"I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that."

"I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts."

"I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy."

"I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you."

"At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy."

"Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art / an individual masterpiece."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."

"You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead."

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."