“I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too m...” — Lech Walesa Quote

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.