A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The first prerogative of any artist, in any medium, is to make a fool of himself.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That’s part of our business. And that too is not the end of the world, though it can seem so at the time

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A man is what he wills himself to be.

Man is what he wills himself to be.