I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

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 have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.