When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I did Air America for two reasons: to be in a movie with Mel Gibson and to make a bunch of money. And then underneath there was the hope that in doing this formulaic thing I would be launched into a whole new realm of opportunity to do A-list movies. By the time we were done, the only positive thing was meeting Mel Gibson.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.