I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. So, of course. And then, we're s…

I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me …

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happe…

I'm the guy kids love and parents hate. The guy mothers love to hate. When you've achieved that, you've achieved a goal.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.