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.

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

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

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

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

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.