"If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first."

“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”

“It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.”

“In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent”

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

“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”

Source : "The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 121 (2001 edition), 1945.

“Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.”

“I'm a kind of private guy.”

“I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.”

Source : "Gerard Butler In ‘Men’s Journal’: Talks Getting Laid, Trimming Jennifer Aniston’s Bush". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

“I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.”