It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

A good movie humanizes people.

The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.