Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

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 think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Little things affect little minds.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.