Why aren't I like other boys?

I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost

Isn't it time for you to free yourself from your past in order to enjoy the beauty of the present?

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.