I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don’t apologise, that’s my life.
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
We don’t go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!
Nobody “becomes” a character. You can’t act unless you are who you are.
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don’t know anything about it. They don’t want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.
It really don’t matter what you’re thinking about, as long as you’re thinking about something.
What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.