Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.