I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.