Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.

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.

I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

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.

We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.

Nothing else counts except what you want.

I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.