The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Smile if you want to be happy now

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.