If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.