"It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted."

"I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure."

"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."

"I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office."

"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience."

"I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of."

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."

"Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out."

"I'm addicted "to "Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'"

"I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him."

"There is no child left within me, none whatsoever."

"Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel."

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."

"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."

"Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones."

"I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right."

"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."

"We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace."

"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences."

"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

"If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that."

"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."

"To me, success is choice and opportunity."

"I've never wanted to be the boss."

"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."

"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."

"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."

"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."

"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."

"I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I "would "be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character."

"It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together."