I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so.

But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To sav

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton