Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?