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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Acting is a youthful profession.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.