"No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously."

“A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.”

Source : "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

“A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.”

“I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.”

“I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.”

“It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.”

Source : Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

“As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.”

“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”

“I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.”