"With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible."

“You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.”

Source : Kathleen Flinn (2011). “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks”, p.16, Penguin

“I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.”

“What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.”

“A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.”

“To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.”

“I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!”

“It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.”