There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

Every now and then say, 'What the fu©k.' 'What the fu©k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.