Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.