It's not personal, it's strictly business

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

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.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.