Occupation: Film Actor Birth: April 25, 1940
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….
I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star..
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 don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person..
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition..
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?.
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote….
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens..
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things..
Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else,….
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..
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..
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….
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, sayi….
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore..
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday..
I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the ….
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers..
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 ….
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….
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….