Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Experience is the cane of the blind.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

In my world, even sure bets are not certain; 'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.