Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

He who thinks little errs much

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

You can observe a lot just by watching.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

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.