I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

Either I act or I die.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.