No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right..

If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit..

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you fi….

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something..

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will..

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I….

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what ….

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned..

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed t….

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how ….

I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of the time, I've been really fortunate to work with….

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with th….

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that t….

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing ano….

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife..

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God….

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor..

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move….

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to b….

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word..

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor..