With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. The first is the law, the last prerogative. There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming. If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19. I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one. Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune? In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black. In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.