Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

I’m not the most patient of people.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

We are wiser than we know.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I never fall in love.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Money does not change people, people change.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.