Actor

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

I love great animation.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

I do voicework all the time.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

Well, I don't have an agenda.

I'm very happy.

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.