I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.