The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare