Every time I get a script it’s a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It’s like falling in love. You can’t give a reason why.

You only grow when you are alone.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

Who’s to say who’s an expert?

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he’s sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Every time I get a script it’s a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It’s like falling in love. You can’t give a reason why.

Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.