Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

The perspective is more important than the perception

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

Some guys play not to get hurt, and they're never really as good as they can be. That's not the way I play.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

If you enjoy what you do, if you are interested in what you do, I really think that's the best situation.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.