I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I got Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn -- the audience is part of it.

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

You hear about things happening to people -- they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way -- and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy -- or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Morning is the best time to see movies.