Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.