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

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?

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.