Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

In my store, anyone and everyone is welcome.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.