Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.