“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

“To be an artist, you look, you perceive, you recognize what is going through your mind. And it is not ideas. Everything you feel and everything you see and everything that your whole life goes through your mind, you know. But you have to recognize it and go with it and really feel it.”

“It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.”

“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”

“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, "I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer," that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”

“You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.”

“Son,” he said, “you’re going to work in this life, and you’re going to play. And when the last days come, you’ll look back and find that that’s all there was, and endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you’ve beaten the game. I haven’t. Most men don’t. You probably won’t, either, but the point is to try, and to never give up, even when you think it’s over.”

“Imagine you go away
On a business trip one day
And when you come back home
Your children have grown
And you never made your wife moan”

“No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”

“When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)”