I Saw School Of Rock, And I

I Would Say That Among My Many Huge Emotional Miscalculations Was My Taking A Film Career For Granted. It Is The Most Awesome Privilege To Be Able To Use One's Imagination And Wit, Physicality And Musicality, Conscious Brain And Unconscious Instinct In The Service Of A Work That Has A Chance To Move And Excite And Amuse And Delight People All Over The World, Including Long After We're Dead. What A Noble Calling! And I Felt It Was Just There For Me As A Kind Of Given, Some Sort Of Inherited Birthright-when In Reality It's The Most Magnificent Luxury.

I Have A Really Interesting Political Point Of View, And Its Not Always Something I Say Too Loud At Dinner Tables Here, But You Cant Go From A $2,000-a-night Suite At La Mirage To A Penitentiary And Really Understand It And Come Out A Liberal. You Cant. I Wouldnt Wish That Experience On Anyone Else, But It Was Very, Very, Very Educational For Me And Has Informed My Proclivities And Politics Every Since.

I Really Don't Want To Thank My Wife Because I Could Be Bussing Tables At The Daily Grill Right Now If Not For Her. Jesus, What A Gig That'd Be.

I Think A Hero Is Someone Who, If Abroad Or Traveling, They Go To The Goop Website To See What Shops To Go To, What Restaurants To Eat At, What Clothes To Buy, And They Do That Not Fearlessly But In Spite Of Their Fear.

Discipline For Me Is About Respect. It's Not Even About Self-respect; It's About Respect For Life And All It Offers.