The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Well done is better than well said.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.