I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Every book is a unique experience.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.