“When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.”

The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.

Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.

I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!

When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.

I’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it’s thankless and fruitless and you can’t accomplish much.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.

I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.