The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

I hate it when girls act stupid ’cause they think it’s cute. Intelligence is sexy.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Be curious, not judgmental.