Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

I like the way you hustle man.

Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt.

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.