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.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

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

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