Respecting differences is very difficult.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Im not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

I married a damned cereal killer