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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

I only want to do better work. That’s the focus of my life.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

I always wanted to be a writer.

I didn’t come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don’t want to be considered a cool actor – I want to be a great actor.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.