- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”
- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
- “Am I a romantic? I’ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I’m a romantic.”
- “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
- “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
- “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”
- “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
- “I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”
- “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
- “I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”
- “I think everybody’s nuts.”
- “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
- “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
- “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
- “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”
- “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
- “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
- “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
- “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”
- “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
- “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
- “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
- “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
- “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
- “He is able who thinks he is able.”
- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
- “Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
- “I dont want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
- “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”
- “I’m chasing perfection.”
- “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”
- “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”
- “These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”
- “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
- “I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
- “I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘Will Smith’ thing and get paid.”
- “I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”
- “If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.”
- “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”
- “It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.”
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
- “My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.”
- “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say «Now kick your feet.»”
- “There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?”
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
- “Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”
- “You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”
- “If you don’t ask me out to dinner, I don’t eat”
- “Just cause you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there.”
- “A heart that’s full up like a landfill and a job that slowly kills you.”
- “May pretty horses come to you as you sleep”
- “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
- “I Want None Of This”
- “How You See The World No. 2.”
- “If I could be who you wanted all the time.”
- “I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you.”
- “I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches, and nothing.”