Charlie Sheen.

The Bad Part Is That There’s a Lot of Waiting, a Lot of Sitting Around, a Lot of Down Time. It’s Hard to Keep the Energy Level Up. We’re All Human and It’s Just Impossible. – on Film Acting.

She Was a Sweet Girl, but When She Grew up I Started to Have a Crush on Her Which Lasts to This Day. I Also Chose Her Film Name. She Was Known as Horowitz and I Said She Should Change It. We Were Listening to a Lot of Doors Music, Including the Tracks Riders on the Storm, and I Said She Should Change Her Name to Rider with a Y. the Next Thing, She’s Winona Ryder. No One Believes Me, but That’s the Truth.

If I’ve Learned Anything at All, It’s That I Know Nothing About Women. They Remain a Mystery. but I’ve Learned to Stop Trying to Figure Them Out. There’s No End to the Journey, and That’s What Makes It so Compelling.

The Hardest Were Those First 30 Days Sober. Then, Three Months and Six Months. but If I Compare the Amount of Time I’ve Been Sober to the Amount of Time I’ve Partied, Well, Let’s Just Say I’ve Still Got a Lot of Catching up to Do. Staying Sober Is the Most Important Thing in My Life, Along with My Family and Loved Ones. the Movies, TV, Money and All the Other Crap Is Just Secondary.

I Don’t Really Hang Out with a Lot of People Anymore. in the Past I Always Had to Surrounded Myself with a Crowd. Today, I Just Don’t Need It. but While My Life Might Seem Dull to Some, It’s Exciting to Me. That’s Because Through My Sobriety, I’m Finally Able to Enjoy a Level of Serenity That I’ve Witnessed in Other People but Never Had Myself. and That Kind of Self-contentment Can’t Be Purchased or Acquired. It Has to Be Earned. I’m Trying to Earn It. Everyday.

The Only Thing I Didn’t Do Was Shoot Heroin. When I Was Ten Years Old, I Told Myself That I’d Never Do Heroin Because One of Two Things Would Happen – I’d Do It Once and Die or I’d Do It Once and Then Do It Every Day for the Rest of My Life. I Guess I Should Have Made That Same Decision About All the Other Drugs.

I Still Want Just One At-bat in the Major Leagues. Just One. I’ll Take It Over an Oscar. Then, I’m in the Baseball Encyclopedia. Forever. Forever. Even If I Strike or Walk.

I Have 12 Tattoos, and I Wish I Hadn’t Gotten so Many Now. It’s Hard When You Have to Take Your Shirt off Two Hours in Make-up and It Doesn’t Cover Them.

I Drank, Toward the End, Two or Three Bottles of Vodka a Day. I Wouldn’t Drink the Whole Day; I’d Drink About Every Hour and a Half. a Big Water Glass Full of Vodka. That Would Get Me Through the Next Couple of Hours.

I Nearly Died, Which Is About as Bad as You Can Get. I’m Totally Convinced That Drugs and Alcohol Brought Me Very Close to Death Two or Three Times, and It’s More Luck Than Anything Else That I’m Still Alive. My Spirit Was Dying and I Believe When Your Spirit Dies, It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Your Body Follows. – on His near Fatal Drug Overdose.

In Sobriety They Teach You to Think the Drink Through. Don’t Just Think About Having the Drink and How Good It’s Going to Feel. Think Through to the Next Morning, How It’s Going to Influence You, the Shame, How It’s Going to Trigger the Domino Effect. If I Do That I End up With, OK, I’m Not Going to Drink. It’s the Same Thing with One-night Stands. I Appreciate My Time in the Mornings so Much That I’d Rather Go to Bed at Night Alone Than Deal with Waking Up, Creeping Around the Bedroom, Being Quiet, Worrying. Also, I’d Like to Be with Somebody I Care About. Something Moderately Substantial. – Quote from 2001.

Sometimes It’s Work, Sometimes It’s That Something Extra. I’m Not Going to Lie to You, There Are Times You Show up on the Set and Have Two Lines, and You Simply Walk Through. It’s Just Work. Then There Are Certain Scenes and Moments, Based on the Intensity or Intent of What You’re Trying to Pull Off, That Call for More of an All- Out Effort. That’s When You Bring Out Your Best.

One of My Fondest Memories Is When Slash, from Guns N’ Roses, 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, You Have to Shut It Down. You’re Going to Die.’ He’s a Terrific Guy and I Love Him, He’s a Buddy of Mine, but I Had to Step Back from That Situation and Go, ‘Yeah, but You’re Slash. Whaddya Mean?’ We’d Been up for About Four Days. but I Still Heard Him Because a Part of Me Was Saying, ‘This Isn’t as Much Fun as I Thought It Was Going to Be. Something’s Missing.’

Fame Is a Fickle Mistress. It’s Very Deceiving. It Looks Really Bitchin’ from the Outside, and Then You Get It and It’s Very Confusing Professionally, Socially, Emotionally. It’s Confusing Because You’re so Worried About How You’re Perceived. a Lot of My Exploits Were Guilt-driven, Shame-driven. I Would Hang Out with the Lower- Class Individual and Try to Give Away as Much as Possible, Because on Some Level I Felt Like I Hadn’t Really Earned All I Had, and When Was Everyone Going to Find Out? When Would the Curtain Be Yanked Back? and All This Because One Day I Was a Working Actor, Just Trying to Pursue Something I Enjoyed and Trying to Make a Living, and the Next Day I Was a Commodity.

He Brings a Reality to His Work That’s Beyond What Is Required, and I Think It Takes the Audience to Another Place. He Tortures Himself Doing It, but God Bless Him, Because That Work Exists Forever. It’s Educational, Watching His Stuff. He Teaches Us About Taking Risks and About Letting Go of Self, of Celebrity, Ego and All That Crap We Hang on to in Front of the Camera. Sean Just Says, ‘That’s Not What I’m Here For.’ – on Sean Penn.

You Can Go to the Best Restaurant in Town with No Reservation, at Peak Mealtime with Seven Friends, and Say, ‘We’re Hungry.’ Then You Could Leave That Meal, Call a Guy on the Way to the Airport to Fire up a Jet to Take You to Vegas, Go to a Casino with Nothing -No Wallet, Nothing and Talk a Casino Manager into Giving You a $50,000 Line of Credit. – on the Lifestyle You Can Have as a Young, Hot Movie Star.

I Remember Thinking and Feeling and Believing That I Was Not Able to Stop, That I Genuinely Was Incapable of Putting an End to This. It Wasn’t Even That I Didn’t Know What to Do with Myself If I Could Stop. I Didn’t Take the Thought That Far. It Was, ‘My God, I Can’t Stop. Now What?’ Not, ‘OK, If I Stop?’ That Was a Terribly Sad Reality. – on His Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

At Age 16. I Was Arrested for Possession of Marijuana. Then I Was Arrested Again a Year Later for This Five-day Crime Spree, Where I’d Go to the Beverly Hills Hotel and Tell People That I’d Been a Guest and Lost My Term Paper. They’d Let Me Look Through the Trash, Where I’d Find All These Credit-card Receipts and Use the Numbers to Make Phone Orders.

Yeah, I’d Get an Eye Tuck or a Chin Tuck. a Lot of My Job Is How You Look. – on If He Would Ever Consider Plastic Surgery.

There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Fun. It Gets Redundant. How Many Times Can You Wake up and Struggle to Remember Your Name, Her Name and Where You Are?