I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it..

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a diale….

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway..

I've led a very eclectic life..

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things..

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive..

Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pit….

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with t….

When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without b….

I always wanted to play a lawyer..

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's li….

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers..

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong..

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air..

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor ….

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, t….

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real ….

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory..

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore..

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be..

Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generati….