I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.