"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the …"

"Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway."

"I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction…"

"It was as if somehow Al Capone had become head of the United States."

"To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything. His …"

"The whole film, my character has been covering up her emotions with a hardness, not letting anybody see her crack, so…"

"I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me. So to be here standing in this room today is…"