If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Love is an interesting thing.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

I know love is the answer.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.