I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.