You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

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

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.