The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.