If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Guilt is the thief of life.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I love life because what more is there?

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

The reward is in the doing of it.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.