Every crowd has a silver lining.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless medio

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.