I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.