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Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.