Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I'm never in the tabloids. I prefer that.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

A heartfire, Clementine my darlin', is when you want someone, when you need her so damn bad, not only in your bed but in your life, that you're willin' to burn--".

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!