I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

Thomas Ward found, we are twice as creative when the first impulse doesn’t work.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It’s just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don’t waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past.

I’ve been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller – my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that’s going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen’s lavatory.

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it’s not that easy. Acting is what’s easy.

Looking at a problem the same way over and over again is entirely unproductive. We will fail unless we give our minds a way to look at the situation from a new perspective.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock – a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don’t tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.