I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
