“My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.”

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

There are roles that you chase sometimes.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money,

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry.

Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.