"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."

"Study men, not historians."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"It sure is hell to be president."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

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

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

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

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved."

"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."

"When I first started out, I was a bad actor."

"The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie."

"I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator."

"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."

"J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in."

"I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene."

"The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining."