One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Mind over mattress.

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

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Hatred is self-punishment.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.