Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
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.
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.
I saw the horizon. It’s out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it’s worth reaching for.
I don’t believe in death. I think it’s just a state of mind.
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone’s really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn’t influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian – the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
I’m a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I’ve played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn’t what you watch on TV.
If you’re in a hit movie, it’s good to be in another hit movie straight away.
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they’re done working. I still find that entertaining.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.