I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

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.

If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison.

There's always world enough and time.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.