If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.