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

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

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.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

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!?