I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Once you “believe” that you can do it and do take the first step forward, stop doubting yourself.

The only thing that holds you back from your success is fear of the unknown

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.