"We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks."

-- Anais Nin

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“I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.”

Source : BBC documentary "The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD", 1987.
“I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.”
“Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.”
“When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.”
“When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.”
“I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!”
“With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.”

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