You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

Art is spiritual.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

I've known Donald forever, and I know the bad things they say about Donald Trump is not true because I've known him as a friend for so long. I've seen what he's done for all types of people. I know how many people call him a racist and all this, and it just makes me sick because he's not.

I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.

I learned through the 'Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,' the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or '69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon... So that's kind of how it all started for me.

Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.

The fans have always helped me get through good things and bad things on and off the golf course.

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I'm there. It's embarrassing. But I can't walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can't go anymore.

Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue.

Coming down the 18th, your heart's pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms - there's no feeling like it.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the '90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn't care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

I think people relate to me because of the ups and downs I have had. I mean, I've shared a lot of strong emotions in my life, that I think maybe 'cause they believe I'm not scared to tell everybody I'm a human being.

I've tried to lose weight two or three times, and every time, my golf game was horrible.

I'm the luckiest human being that ever walked.

I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren't going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I've gained that back.

Golf is day-to-day. It's shot to shot; it's not four days at a time.

I'm not scared of Tiger. I'm not scared to go head-to-head. I'm not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you're not playing competitive golf... there's nothing better than competitive golf.

I'm a guy who's either going to go full bore, or I'm not going to do it at all.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

The thing I love about Donald, it's time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn't have his hands out. I not only consider him as a friend, but if people get to know Donald Trump, I think they'll know what I'm talking about. He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my life.

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

It's hard for me not to play on the West Coast. I love it out there.

Anybody who knows me... when I'm tired, I sleep with my eyes open.