I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

I am all for stem cell research.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.