We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.