I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

The money is the only source of smile for the poor.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

I'm always willing to dub myself in all the five languages that I speak for the international market, because I think it's better when our audience hears the real voice of the actor that is acting.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I

I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.