If you can get out there and say I'm going to... I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

Blame is for God and small children.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.

I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.