Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The atmosphere of a date is everything.

These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Answer suffering with kindness.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.