GARSON KANIN

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

The whole history of the world has been the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

When you steal from the government, you steal from yourself.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

The whole history of the world has been the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish.

When you steal from the government, you steal from yourself.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.