“What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.”

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.

It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.

We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.

What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

See, ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.

I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.

We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.