The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.