“Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don’t try to imitate anybody else’s success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.”
“To me, success is choice and opportunity.”
“Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.”
“When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not
“If you’re going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.”
“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.”
“You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.”
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
“You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.”
“I’m still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.”
“You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.”
“I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won’t be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.”
“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.”
“I’m like old shoes. I’ve never been hip. I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.”
“Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.”
“What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.”
“What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.”
“What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.”
“I’ve always been somewhere down from the top, so I’ve never had to suffer being knocked off the top.”
“Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.”
“I don’t think I’ve mastered anything. I’m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That’s what life is like.”
“The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.”
only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.”
“’May the Force be with you’ is charming but it’s not important. What’s important is that you become the Force – for yourself and perhaps for other people.”
“There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.”
“What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.”
“Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.”
“You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.”
“I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don’t overpower the story with the visual element.”
“I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.”
“It’s important not to base your ambition on anybody else’s history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people’s stories.”
“Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don’t ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.”
“It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.”
“The actor’s popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.”
“I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. If you simply didn’t give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.”
