If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

Every journey starts with fear.

We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.