“You need to be happy to live, I don’t.”

Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery, the joy and the depth.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction.

I thank the earth and the sky every day for the opportunities I’ve had.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Tomorrow is our treasure. Tomorrow is our pleasure.

Because of the person I am I won’t be knocked down — ever. They can say I’m fat, I’m thin, I’m whatever, and I’ll never stop. I just won’t. I’ve got too much to do. I’ve too much to be happy about.

And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.