Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.