One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Ordinary won't change the world.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

I must have been a koala in my past life.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.