I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

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.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

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