- "I hate advice unless I'm giving it."
- "I hate giving advice, because people won't take it."
- "I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed."
- "I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life."
- "I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives."
- "Lately, I've been de-emphasizing what actors think of as character work. The limps and the lisps, the accents -- I don't want to be bothered. You gotta make it come from the inside. It's all about who you are. That's all you can really contribute. I feel autobiographical about whatever I do."
- "My motto is: more good times."
- "I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home."
- "That is correct: I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know. If I start giving that more weight because of the half-digested view of an analytical life, it's working against you, you know what I mean? Accentuate the positive, that's what I say. It's a trick, but it works."
- "Here's another old actor saying: It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward."
- "I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me. God knew, they had a great opinion and they loved me and meant well, but it was like, Please, you don't have this right. You know what I mean?"
- "I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine."
- "I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess."
- "I get peevish, sure. Nobody yells or screams any more than I do. But the toughest days are when I get home and realize, Holy shit! They were right! Oy, I'm an asshole! And this happens at least once or twice every picture, where you're just -- you're just so sure, you're such a big-time guy, you know what I mean? And then you get home and you have that moment of holy shit."
- "The less people know about me, the easier my job is."
- "Always try to avoid interviews."
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