If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
It’s always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it’s nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.
As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.
I don’t think I’m ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.
I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.
I don’t believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.
Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.
There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.
That peace that we’re after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.
I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.
It’s always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it’s certainly not the fame because it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s really the person in the seat you think about when you sit in the rooms and write, and you do all the things you have to do.
You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.
Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.
One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.
Dry land is not a myth. I’ve seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don’t know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!
Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.
Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.