Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Money is really only important if you don't have any.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.