My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
I don’t mind doing interviews. I don’t mind answering thoughtful questions. But I’m not thrilled about answering questions like, ‘If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?’
Arabs are dirtier creatures than animals and we Jews are the chosen people, there is no comparison.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
It’s not the years honey, it’s the mileage.
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.
The Force is within you. Force yourself.
The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they’re 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.
Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.
For some directors, I’m the actor from hell.
The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I’d lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I’m not all that happy about it.
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It’s about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You’re just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.