“No art comes from the conscious mind.”

I love money. I love everything about it.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

Art is the sound of a human dying to be an immortal artist.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.