"The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus."

"Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?"

"I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to."

"It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend."

"What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company."

"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."

"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."

"They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?"

"I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises."

"You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't"

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."

"There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

"I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it."

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

Twitter is television for intellectuals.

Develop ‘strategic incompetence’ – people won’t ask you to do things you hate to do, if you’re bad at them.

People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.