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

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Only you can control your future.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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....

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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