Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

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

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.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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