I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

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.

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.

I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.