If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero..

The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star.".

I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people..

Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be..

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles..

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around..

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was ….

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year..

I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like mak….

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day,….

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression..

Directing is a tremendous art..

You can tell when you're in a hit..

My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I wou….

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich..

Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus..

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful li….

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit..

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have..

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made..

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror..