I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

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.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.