I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

The quality of your life will be in direct proportion to the level of your gratitude.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'