No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.