I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.