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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Art is science made clear.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.