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.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

The close-up says everything.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.