Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What’s at our core, then? What’s still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.