Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Fake it until you make it.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

You can't make souffle rise twice.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.