Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

At my age, to still be able to do parts that are super physical, I'm lucky. I'm doing more fun stuff now than I ever have in my life. I'm just really fortunate.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.