The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Disagreement is something normal.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

We do not judge the people we love.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.