“If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.”

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.

I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.

We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

I’m not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect.

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]

That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.

I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?