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..

Vanity: my favorite sin..

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous..

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself..

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth..

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's..

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no ident….

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy….

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large..

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go….

Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked….

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell'….

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one..

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember..

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think t….

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls..

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An a….

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals..

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.