“Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.”

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed with? That’s me.

I never look back and think too much about my films. I’ve done some work I’ve been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don’t know. I could say the last one. I’ve had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

What Trump is onto is, he’s just saying what’s on his mind. And sometimes it’s not so good. And sometimes it’s. I mean, I can understand where he’s coming from, but I don’t always agree with it.

My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I don’t let the haters get their way.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.

When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.