I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

Trial and error open the portal to perfection.

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

I never dated Wilmer Valderrama. I never dated Danny Masterson. They're like my brothers. That's disgusting. That's wrong.

One of the first choices we make every day is your attitude. Wake up and put on an attitude of thanksgiving!