It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

I do my job like I breathe.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

I’ve always been a fan of the VMAs, and I’ve always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.