I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I write music every day.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.