I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I like talking. I like acting.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

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

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I play a nobody in Japan.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

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.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

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.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren’t the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Let the path be open to talent.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.