"I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling."

"I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation."

"I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'"

"America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong."

"That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together."

"The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on."

"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore."

"It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in."

"When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man."

"I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that."

"When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance."

"When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy."

"Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring."

"There is a reason why all things are as they are."

"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."

"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"

"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!"

"I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot."

"Despair has its own calms."

"I will not let you go into the unknown alone."

"Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings."

"How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it."

"Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams."

"Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)"

"I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats."

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

"No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart."

"Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable."

"Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours."

"I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him."

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

"The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of."

"Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."

"The blood is the life!"

"No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves."

"Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?"

"She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination."

"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."

"Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it."

"Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring."

"There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA."

"I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me."

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

"But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together."

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

"I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does."

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

"I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing."

"Take me away from all this Death."

"We learn of great things by little experiences."