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.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."