“I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

“Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.”

“I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.”

“And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.”

“I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.”

“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”