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.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

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

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?