The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.

I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.