I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I have a natural swagger.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we offer life resistance, and what we resist most are the experiences that bring us pain.

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Never, ever lose hope. We must not lose hope.

If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.

Tip of the day- Don't smash your face!

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.