Actor Quotes

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.