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 mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

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.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.