"Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her."

“[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!”

“Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.”

“I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.”

Source : "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

“A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.”

“Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.”

“I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.”

“It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.”

Source : George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”