Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.