The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me!

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

Most people think that when it's time to buy a car, they should immediately go to the dealerships to find what they want. In reality, there's a lot of planning that should be done first.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.