[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.