Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.