I’m an entrepreneur at heart, I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

If your heart is strong enough to hold grudges, then it is very capable of forgiving others. It takes more strength to hold onto something than to let it go.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it.

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.