I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.