Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
