I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I believe time wounds all heels.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Words are loaded pistols.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.