The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

Life's too short for a funeral.

It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.

What's the point of a good job if you're dead?

Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.

If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

If I'm not on a cruise, I'm either thinking about my last one or planning my next!

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.