You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

You can never have too many friends.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.