Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I was an overnight sensation.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I don’t care about money.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The first wealth is health.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.