Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up.