That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

The way it looks is exactly how it was.

Well, I’m a character actor, and actually throughout my life I’ve… I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I’ve done it.

I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

The majority of directors I’ve worked with didn’t know how to talk to actors.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn’t been the manifested reception of it so far.

In this business, you’re either Brad Pitt right away, or you’re already going down the ladder.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

We have a great job where you get to put out something positive like this that might make people think, that might make people feel.

I like to say that I didn’t choose acting – acting chose me.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Music is my life.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

Now it’s a fully realized production but for the fact that we’re holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn’t and you have to by union...

I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.

If the subject matter isn’t inherently interesting – accounting comes to mind – I’ve got to make it amusing, if only to keep myself awake.

I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject...

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

So don’t applaud. Just send me the check.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn’t get laid.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there’s even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It’s not real.

I just don’t deal with any government. I don’t deal with the United States government. When it comes to understanding humanity, they’re the worst.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

We all went to Kelsey’s wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other’s house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey’s and just read through some plays just...

If you know you’re going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don’t get distracted by what’s going on and focus better.

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

I don’t think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It’s all just pretend. That’s what’s fun about it.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything… like stray cats and squirrels.

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn’t cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a...

Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.

I’ve calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I’m still having a good time.

So I’ve been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it’s because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I’ll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan...

L.A. kind of scares me.

People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don’t make it, I’ll make my own and...

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow – Don’t...

I’ve worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the ’40s or the 50s anymore – we cannot pretend, things are changing.