Um an seinen eigenen Weg zu glauben, muss man nicht zuerst beweisen, dass der Weg des anderen falsch ist.

Sieger machen nie zweimal denselben Fehler.

Jeder hat die Talente, die er für seinen eigenen Weg braucht.

Wichtiges bleibt, unwichtiges verschwindet.

Wer hilft, dem wird immer geholfen werden.

Spreche mit deinen Lippen nie ein Ja aus, wenn dein Herz Nein sagt.

Hinter der Wiederholung unserer Erfahrungen steht nur ein einziges Ziel: uns zu lehren, was wir noch nicht begriffen haben.

Verbringe deine Tage nicht damit, eine Rolle zu spielen, die andere für dich ausgesucht haben.

Im Schmerz von gestern liegt die Kraft von heute.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Back when I used to struggle with how I could define myself in the film business, I knew that I'd always remain true to myself and what I wanted to accomplish. The style of action I showcase is quite different from other stars we usually see, but I'm remaining true to myself, and hopefully this comes across.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Night is the mother of counsels.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

Youre no longer a part of my life but I wish you the best with yours.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

If you’re bored with life - you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.

I kind of like working fast.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.

In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.