Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.