I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”

I don't know what I believe.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.