I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant... and you may quote me.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.