All you have to do is believe, baby, believe you're the best in the world and you'll get here.

I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.

Belief is a powerful thing.

I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.

I'm too competitive to get that big of a head.

A good intention feeds no one.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important to us when we're striking poses here. It's very important, it's really great.