"A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope."

“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.”

“People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.”

Source : "Jemima Kirke Will Be an Actress Yet". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 10, 2010.

“I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.”

“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon...”

“I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.”

“The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.”

“But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.