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 used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move….

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I….

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed t….

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

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

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 ….

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will..

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you fi….

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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 don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of the time, I've been really fortunate to work with….

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 ….

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..

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

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..