"The best things happen when you're dancing." He says this in The Christmas Card and three years later in Mending Fences.
In 1982, he appeared in two movies, 48 Hrs and Some Kind of Hero, where his characters badger comic icons Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor in bar room scenes.
As of 2016, has appeared in two films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Seabiscuit (2003) and Milk (2008).