The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
He who has the greatest power put into his hands will only become the more impatient of any restraint in the use of it.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.
To define is to limit.
The goal of the fundamentalists is to switch off the light and make us see by the flame of one candle.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
By logic, it's a handicap. If I shut one eye, I can't see from the other eye. But it is one of those things which I don't think too much about. One needs to have the strength to move forward.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
At my height, I've got to be fast.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.
Specialisation is for insects!
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
If you haven't got help, all you can do is make good music.
