Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.