I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college..

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved..

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting..

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing..

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me..

I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. T….

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work..

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't..

I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would ….

I never make conscious decisions..

I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and….

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs..

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone..

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life..

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished..

I've got a great sense of humor..

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound r….

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back….

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there..

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active..

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day..