“I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.”

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

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.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

I shave my head & shape my beard myself

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don’t.

TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.