When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

When I look into the future its so bright it burns my eyes.

No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Legalism strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or pre-scription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.

The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.