Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.