Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

When you start to pursue your dream with a strong faith, the length of its journey and the size of your obstacle ahead would become completely irrelevant.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.