I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
