I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.