Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

I'm still waiting for somebody to wake me up.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

know your strengths so, that it can strengthen you much more...

Without speaking, one can win the trust of a person by one's conduct

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.