Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

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.

'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.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

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.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness.

I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking!

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.