It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.