"It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor."

"I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks."

"I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it."

"You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult."

"I am stable when my private life is a success."

"I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive."

"I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school."

"It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day."

"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."

"My favorite actor is Wallace Beery."

"I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do."

"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."

"I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility."

"I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit."

"I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in."

"The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere."

"This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being."

"People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!"

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

"My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons."

"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."

"I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life."

"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."

"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."

"I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along."

"The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side."

"I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar."

"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."

"Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to."

"Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had."

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically."