“I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.”

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.

You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.

The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.

If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question

Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.

I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.

We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

I was a personality before I became a person.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!