When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Even coal shimmers in the light

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.