If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times.

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

You can never turn your back on the ocean.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

I love basketball.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Fashion is a good job for a young girl. I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organise your life around it.

If you can talk, you can write.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.