A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.