When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.

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

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

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