Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.
We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.
I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!