“If you want a thing done, go yourself; if not, send.”

“If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.”

“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.”

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.”

“Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.”

“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”

“Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself… know what you want.”

“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”