No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug, ' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.