"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."

"When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then."

"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."

"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."

"When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera."

"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."

"If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it."

"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."

"The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows."

"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

"We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing."

"When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor."

"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."

"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."

"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."

"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."

"I do them all for the money, I really do."

"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."

"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."

"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care."

"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."

"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."

"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."

"I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing."