As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.