Love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here.
I realize it’s impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.
The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to live.
I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
All parties are good.
You work, you get paid, you drink.
I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.
Mrs. O’Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O’Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.