No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.

Directing is a tremendous art.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Sometimes its good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.