Acting is very immediate.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

There's nothing good about divorce.

I'm very wary of news on television.

You never quiet the love message. Never.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

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