An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words

You have a piercing.” “So I do.”“Didn’t that hurt?”“A bit.

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.