The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.