"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop."

“All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

Source : John Milton (1851). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.387

“With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.”

“The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.”

“Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.”

Source : Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

“We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.”

“If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.”

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

“The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”