Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.