[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.