"I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me."

"To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form."

"As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring."

"Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process."

"I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health."

"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."

"I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody."

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."