Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.