I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

The universe is talking. All we have to do is stop and listen.

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Children are the bridge to heaven.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.