I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.