Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.

The most recent was my match against Daniel Bryan at Fastlane. He kicked my scar from my recent hernia surgery. That was painful. I needed to take a step back from training that next day!