When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I never seen snakes on a plane

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

I think I'm a million different faces

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!