I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.

Change is a slow process. Keep going toward your goals. When you feel like giving up, remember how good it will feel to change your life into the wonderful life you have imagined.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.