Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.