I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.