You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.