When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.