What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.