The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.
I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.
The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
Younger people - not just older people - holding this basic underlying attitude that's suggested there that women aren't worth much, that they're property, that just about anything can be done with them.
To start to look more focused on the good that's been done and can be done.
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.
When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show. " You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool. "
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.