Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.
The remedies are neither easy, nor cheap, nor immediately realizable.
to the urban housing problem
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
When expectations are really high, you're doomed.
It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
You're never going to please 100 percent of women.
Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.