I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.