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

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.