Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

I can feel myself dying inside.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

I'm really into nutrition from the inside out.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.