Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love.

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

I took everything to a big matter.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.