I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Wake up! Time to die!

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Nothing can touch the human heart like kindness.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Music is important for one's health.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.