Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.