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.

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

You can tell when you're in a hit.

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

Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.

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

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