What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I love talking about Scientology.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

It's not about the resources you have available. It's about the resourcefulness you have within you.

We have a fair amount of racism.