I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.