To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

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

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

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

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.