Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, ” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.

We all seek for lost things within us.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.