“You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.”

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.

I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.

You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.