I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.