The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it.

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.