That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.