The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
The key to a great performance is listening. It's not just about delivering your lines, but really hearing what the other actors are saying and responding truthfully.
"Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with."
Poetry is the original language of Being.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.