My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.