Drinking And Smoking Grass Were A Part

I Don't Like A Lot Of Things Like [iraq], I Never Did. Being In A Position Of Celebrity And Having Your Words Carry Such Unnatural Weight...i've Always Been A Bit Squeamish When It Came To That Kind Of Thing.

When My Mother Got Home From Work, She Would Take Me To The Movies. It Was Her Way Of Getting Out, And She Would Take Me With Her. I'd Go Home And Act All The Parts. It Had A Tremendous Influence On My Becoming An Actor.

Actually, The Person I Related To Was James Dean. I Grew Up With The Dean Thing. Rebel Without A Cause Had A Very Powerful Effect On Me.

Shakespeare Is One Of The Reasons I've Stayed An Actor. Sometimes I Spend Full Days Doing Shakespeare By Myself, Just For The Joy Of Reading It, Saying Those Words... I Do Shakespeare When I Am Feeling A Certain Way.

We Were Doing Scarface Many Years Ago...and I Remember Having My Coffee And Looking At The Beach, The Surf, And I Saw A Hundred People Looking Out Into The Ocean. I Thought, What's Going On? Did Some Whale Get Washed Up To Shore? So I Stood Up On The Table To See What It Was, And It Was The Director, Brian De Palma, Standing There Alone By The Surf And They Were All Waiting For Him. And I Never Forgot That Because It Represented To Me What A Director Is, What A Director Does.