My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning..

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential..

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary..

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it..

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney ….

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same thing….

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios….

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater….

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact….

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm ….

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or ….

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific….

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a….

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery..

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things..

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right..

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor..

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God….

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something..

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing ano….