Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.