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.

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.

You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.