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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."
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Personal Development
"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."
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Personal Development
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
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Personal Development
"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
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Personal Development
"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"
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Personal Development
"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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Personal Development
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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Personal Development
"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."
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Personal Development
"It is never late, pursuit your ambitions."
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Personal Development
"The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become."
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"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."
Life
"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."
News
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
Acting
"I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films."
Finance
"I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."
Hope
"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
Acting
"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."
Actor
"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."
Business
"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."
Film
"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."
Ambition
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