Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

I had flops, I had success.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

One with God is a majority.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

I headbang with my head, no my hair

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.