I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

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?

If we keep our dreams in our head they can be forgotten, If we write down our dreams they become tangible, Once they are physical, they have taken the first step in becoming attainable.

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

Money can buy popularity, but it can never buy greatness. Your decisions and actions speak louder than everything else.

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you