What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.