I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

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.

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

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