To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.

The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital.

I think it's extremely important that the citizens of Wisconsin know the positions I'm taking.

It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

I worked for a lot of directors.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear.

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Your own standards have to be higher and more scrupulous than those of critics.

I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but when I left for vacation, I definitely didn't think I would come back as not a member of the Titans. But we had a difference of the opinion somewhere along the way.

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.