Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Kids are natural scientists.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some...

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the...

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Its now, only 'Now' that matters

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.