For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.