I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

One needn't stop dysfunction just evince and reflect.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.