When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

Actors always have opinions.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

The camera looks into your soul.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

The keyboard is my journal.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.