The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
Listen if you want to be heard
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?
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Please all, and you will please none.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
Only you can control your future.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?