Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.