Your Quotes

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that's not just physically, it's psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.