Attitude is more important than the past than education than money than circumstances than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance giftedness or skill.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Happiness is an attitude of mind born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries for instance to Africa but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution and it's amazing how good we are at it.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of for instance Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.