An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.)

Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Discipline must come through liberty.

If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.