Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
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.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Well done is better than well said.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Only you can control your future.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.