To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.