You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.

When your breath is slow and deep, your mind calm, raise your hands and focus on your palms. You will feel the subtle energy that connects body and mind: LifeParticles.

I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.

I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.

That tag - underwear model - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.