Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
It’s a cruel jest to ask a bootless man to lift himself up by his own bootstraps.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
The mission should be unattainable and the goals should reflect doing everything possible to move forward attaining the impossible mission.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
