Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy..

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some….

I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where yo….

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting ….

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens..

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying….

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore..

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it..

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they ….

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other..

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sen….

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an ext….

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too….

The actor becomes an emotional athlete..

There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These ….

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just b….

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a g….

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy….

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you..

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life..

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhaus….