I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.