I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.