Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.

Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy.