We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.