When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.
Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.