It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

I’m not scared of death, Dad, ” I told him. “I’m scared of not living. I don’t want to die with any regrets that I didn’t get to do the things in life that I’ve always wanted.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

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