My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I am grateful for the good in my life.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

I love the role of being the experienced driver and that is definitely the case next year - I think I am the most experienced guy in F1 next year.