"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."

"I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it."

"If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me."

"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy."

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."