Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.