Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

The first step toward success is a deep driving desire.

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.