Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.