One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.