The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.