Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.