“Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.”

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.

I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.

If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.

All young men want to prove themselves.

Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!

When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.