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

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.