Remember to be as smart as you are.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

With failure, you just try again.

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

Crowns are hourly tumbling.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Be black, shine, aim high.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.