I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.