The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.