James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Sometimes change isn't what we want, but it might be what we need. Not everything is meant to last forever.

No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become "Successful".

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.