Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

You can beat me in the rat race, but remember u still remain a rat.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

Conservation is now a dead word.

That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.