“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”– William Lyon Phelps Related Quotes “My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it’s respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It’s not a sprinter’s approach. It’s more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.”– Jason Bateman “I’m open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.”– Pedro Martinez “Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky