I think there's a knowingness in my face.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I may be an optimist.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives

I'm not really into rap.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive then the millstone weighs on the breast.

The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I think most documentaries are too long.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

I was a competitive guy growing up.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.