I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. I….

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth..

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it..

It's the things we love most that destroy us..

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working..

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting..

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions..

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife..

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing tha….

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopefu….

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a hu….

I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took….

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen..

We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure o….

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you..

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role..

I thought, "Oh, my god, that's what happens every time I talk with a journalist in the middle of shooting and I talk about my character. I describe h….

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperia….

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now..

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I t….