If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

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

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.