Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.