Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

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.

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

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.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

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