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

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.