I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

We knew we were doing something that would make an impact, because of Francis [Ford Coppola], but I don't think we were surprised by how well the movie [The Outsiders] did, but I think we would all say we were surprised at how well we all did coming out of it.

At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.