If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.

Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

Life will always be full of great possibilities, as long as one approaches it with a mind that deeply believes in an endless journey of success and happiness.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

Grief is itself a medicine.