There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.