My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I always play women I would date.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Nothing endures but change.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.