When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.