I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.