"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart"

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"

"Do what you do best, and you will succeed"

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong"

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel"

"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing"