I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.

He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.