More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

I have seen myself backward.

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.