Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.