Amateurs hope. Professional work.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them's the breaks.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.