The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.
All young men want to prove themselves.
Remember the mind is your best muscle. . . BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains. . . Ride the brain train for success.
The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.