I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.
Silence is the most powerful state.
You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn Douglas.
I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
There is no self.
I have a good ear for languages.
I've avoided success artfully.
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
Sam Shepard is a brilliant writer.
I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.
I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.
I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.
The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
I change every day. I'm still changing.
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.
Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.
I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.
I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
I like to do nothing.
I've been blessed. I've worked with a lot of good people.
I have to wait and see what happens. Because nobody's in charge.
People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
I was in World War Two at the battle of Okinawa.
