In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.