"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity"
"It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with"
"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married"
"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes"
"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"
"If you've got a talent, protect it"
"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"
"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy"
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her"
"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself"
"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing"
"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy"
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever"
"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself"
"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course"
"I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal"
