John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

He caught that with the outside of his instep.

And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.