I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I entertain for a living, and I entertain.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

My aim in life is not to judge.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I talk too much.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.