Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them a certain sympathy you might call it or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me not because of somebody else.

My career started young and I was really ambitious and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

If not for the success that medicine has made I might be part of a much different story right now.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time but ultimately diversity is a strength.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.