I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.