I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

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?

I need a first-class reputation

Being crazy isn't enough.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.