A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.
There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
This town needs an enema!
Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.
Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.
It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.
I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.
A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.
There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.
