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" It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man. "

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" With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness. "

" Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it. "

" I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal. "

" We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. "

" The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material. "

" In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game. "

" I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier. "

" If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen. "

" Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch. "

" I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable. "

" Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career. "

" I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them. "

" I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax. "

" People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score. "

" You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something. "

" You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off. "

" I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time. "

" It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.' "

" I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence. "

" This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. "

" What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair. "

" I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't. "