You don`t end up with a face like this if you`re hard, do ya? This comes from having too much mouth and nothing to back it up with. The nose has been broken so many times.

You reach a point where the cameo is the governor. You go in there for a couple of weeks, you`re paid a lot of money, everybody treats you like the crown jewels, you`re in and out, and if the film`s a load of shit, nobody blames you, y`knowwhadimean. It`s wonderful.

On getting his first role: "I was three parts pissed. We were going to a party. And this bloke comes around and says: `Right. You`re next. Have you seen the script?`...And I got the leading part."

The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a f**kin` nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F**kin` nightmare. F**kin` idiots.

[on Neil Jordan] I think Neil is a magician. And I believe in magic.

[speaking in 1988] "My life has taken off - my life, my career - everything. I can honestly say I`ve never been happier. I`m walking around thinking any minute now, 25 tons of horse-shit is going to fall on my head."

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny DeVito, there`s only me to play them.

[on Robert De Niro] De Niro has only shown me kindness. He`s a real friend. He`s helped me shop for my wife`s and my kid`s Christmas presents. He`s invited me round to meet his granny and he`s come to my house for a pot-luck diner. That really knocked my wife out. I think she was finally impressed with me.

I`ve watched films and even forgotten I`m in them.

When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It`s all great and if the film turns out to be a load of shit, nobody blames you.

[on director Francis Ford Coppola] Coppola couldn`t piss in a pot.

My own mum wouldn`t call me pretty.