I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Every person is an entrance to another world.

Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?