Get to know somebody and you really learn a lot about ‘em. Won’t be long before you start to doubt ‘em. Tell yourself you better off without ‘em. Then in time you will find can’t walk without ‘em.

In friendships . . . the requisits are always the same. Each provides the other with a refuge in time of trouble, with a continuum to fall back on in time of self-doubt, with an underpinning of earned trust upon which it is possible to build new achievements.

Well, I’m certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I’m doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being, he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning

I doubted myself when I was losing, thankful for not giving up.

There’s no reason to play in the NBA if you don’t believe you can win it all.

The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many

To be honest, I’m not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

I really don’t know what I’m doing… I don’t. It’s terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that’s all I really do.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.