I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

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

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

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