In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have never controlled, in the first place. They say we are never given more...
Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.
If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.
Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?
if you don't know what to do, do something, and if you know, don't do something.
You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jagla...
One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead... I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp, but give me a dead child, any day, over a child sobbing his heart out while y...
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put ...
Jim Stark: Now, would you like to rent or are you more in the mood to buy, dear? Judy: You decide, darling. Remember, our budget. Plato: Oh, don't give it a second thought, it's, uh, only 3 million dollars a month. Jim Stark: What? Judy: Oh, we can a...
The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effe...
You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.
You can not change the past but you can change the future.
You can’t be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it’s the fear that’ll freeze you in place.
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
