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

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

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.