You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.
To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.
Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.
First make peace inside yourself.
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.
No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.
There's no greater purpose than service to others.
We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!
Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.
Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
A career in acting, it's a learning process.
I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
