And make sure to read these and .
1. “When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.”
2. “The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be.”
3. “Sometimes, when you make a film, you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective manner.”
4. “It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.”
5. “Fame is drag.”
6. “It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery, and the joy, and the depth.”
7. “It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.”
8. “When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want, I just react. I go against it.”
9. “The cost of knowledge is an important theme.”
10. “If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.”
11. “You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”
12. “I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making The Matrix was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.”
13. “So many people have that relationship—the companionship, the connection, to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.”
14. “I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.”
15. “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
16. “Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place.”
17. “The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema.”
18. “I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.”
19. “The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
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20. “The recognition of the law of cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understanding how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech, and mind.”
21. “Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don’t think it is the ultimate solution.”
22. “The destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even fires have their benefits.”
23. “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.”
24. “Owning a gun is not okay for me.”
25. “Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm.”
26. “Personally, I do not own a weapon.”
27. “Sometimes, enemies are our best teachers. People can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”
28. “Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing; everything is simply transformed.”
29. “Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today.”
30. “Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask—you are exhibiting your past life on your body.”
31. “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”
32. “Even in the face of tragedy, a stellar person can thrive.”
33. “It’s like we’re zombies. Look up and take your headphones out. Say ‘Hi’ to someone you see and maybe give a hug to someone who looks like they’re hurting.”
34. “Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.”
35. “I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.”
36. “Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered a Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.”
37. “Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.”
38. “I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.”
39. “I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.”
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40. “Money doesn’t mean anything to me.”
41. “The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That’s really what inspires me.”
42. “I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account.”
43. “We all know that good health is much more important.”
44. “Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person, or an object.”
45. “There’s a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told on television nowadays; and much more than there used to be—the opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so, it’s drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there’s a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.”
46. “Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.”
47. “The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.”
48. “I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.”
49. “I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.”
50. “And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It’s great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them.”
51. “Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.”
52. “I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.”
53. “When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.”
54. “You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.”
55. “I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste—there’s always a question of taste.”
56. “How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.”
57. “It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.”
58. “Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it—the grain, how it feels, the texture.”
59. “I have definitely been curious and involved in the process, even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.”
60. “You need to be happy to live, I don’t.”
61. “Sometimes, simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
62. “It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.”
63. “Multi-culture is the real culture of the world—the pure race doesn’t exist.”
64. “I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it, is pretty strong punishment.”
65. “Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.”
66. “Sometimes, I go out and hear people talk about irrelevant things and then I tell myself, ‘This is why I don’t go out.’”
67. “Life is good when you have a good sandwich.”
68. “Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us, sometimes I think they look to be considered.”
69. “Sometimes, we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life.”
70. “No matter what’s going on in your life, you can overcome it!”
71. “They are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve—whether it’s looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.”
72. “Life is worth living.”
73. “Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.”
74. “A good date is when you are intoxicated with each other’s company and everything becomes good in the world.”
75. “How do I confront aging? With wonder and terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.”
76. “I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.”
77. “I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.”
