Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.