That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.