The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
I'm not a sentimental guy.
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
