Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

This is probably going to be one wound that can never be healed.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.