No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.
Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.
I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.
I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.
I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.
I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.
First make peace inside yourself.
Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.
Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
A career in acting, it's a learning process.
In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.
If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.
I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
