I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Sleeping may offer us good dreams but it is in waking up that would bring every good dream into fulfillment.

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

The helicopter approaches closer than any other [vehicle] to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.