I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

Oh, I see people everywhere. Some are celebs, but most of my friends are just regular people. The thing is, even celebs are normal people too. Just people.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I have led a pretty colorful life.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

I've been labeled all my life.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Self-realization is great.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

My addiction has always been beautiful women being surrounded by them.

If anything needs to get fixed in society its peoples consumption of other peoples problems.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.