It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

Oh, I see people everywhere. Some are celebs, but most of my friends are just regular people. The thing is, even celebs are normal people too. Just people.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I have led a pretty colorful life.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

I've been labeled all my life.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Self-realization is great.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

My addiction has always been beautiful women being surrounded by them.

If anything needs to get fixed in society its peoples consumption of other peoples problems.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.