I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

It is often the tiny steps that define the big moments in our dreams.

Laying here in my grave..at last.. I am finally alone.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

If the constitution goes, I go.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.