The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
I wasn't always this introverted.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
