Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

All of my music is honest.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Be as you wish to seem.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

I play a nobody in Japan.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.