The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you!'

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I don't care about my image.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn’t come with complications.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.