But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.