Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Whats the matter?" Jayfeather muttered " Afraid i might give you some medicine?

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.

No man is great if he thinks he is.