The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Love is a longing for giving and receiving.

Resist nothing, allow everything, and surrender that which persists.

Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Make things better than they have to be.