“Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.”

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.

I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.

We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.

So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you’re around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.