“I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Every Human Being Should Experience Something Beyond Physical Nature

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.