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.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

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

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.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

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