The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

I live for myself and answer to nobody