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.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

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

I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

My motto is: more good times.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.