I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The best is the enemy of the good.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Begin with the end in mind.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I already am a product.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I owe my solitude to other people.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.