I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

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

I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

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