Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

I think you need to know your clients.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.