Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

Thank God for your mother.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

At this rate, I'll live forever.

I dont think Im going to do any good work this morning.

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise not too little and not too much we would have found the safest way to health.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

Coaches who have been players in the league they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

A goat does not eat into a hens stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

I like honesty and fair play.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.