Actor

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

I am not an American; I am the American.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.