“That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.”

You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.

As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.

Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.

I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.

Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.