“I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.”

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.

As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.

Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.

I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.

Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.