It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.

We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

What do you see? OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.