You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

I used to Google my name to see what came up - it hurt.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

People are beautiful wrecks.

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

Human making is our mission.

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.