The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

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.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.