I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

You should never give up your inner self.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

My affection for Taiwan… is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.