What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it’s not going to get that much better.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that’s when the beast comes out and takes hold of...

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it’s for five years.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don’t want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

I’m a character actor, so I don’t take the hit if the movie’s bad, the lead does. So, I don’t want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don’t.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.