No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.