It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.