Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Bake a lie into proven facts and you will be surprised at how many fall for it.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

What is matter? Never mind.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Art has to address eternal issues.

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.