Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

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

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

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

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

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?