It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.