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

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute..

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

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it c….

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying..

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….

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 ….

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..

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jammi….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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