I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

I'm a slow reader.

I'm just an actor.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Confidence is key to make one believe in self conviction and serves to grow and make one strong.

Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.