Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

If you've never tried drugs, DON'T. And if you have, pray.

I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

There is only One Human race

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.