Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.