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Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing it, but you're proud of yourself at the end, and you've done it, and at the very least, nobody can take that away from you.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.