I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'