Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

With failure, you just try again.

She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

Basically, I don't like anybody.

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.