"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?"
"Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business."
"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever."
"Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course."
"I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique."
"I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future."
"I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill."
"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."
"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."
"I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible."
"I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast."
"I try to be known more for my work than for anything else."
"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
"Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?"
"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."
"There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse."
"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money."
"What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it."
"When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars."
"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
"Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting."
