The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
I'm acting with the best actors in the world.
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.