I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.