When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.