To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

Eat, sleep and drink music.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.