Some people always know the price, but not the value

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.