A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much..

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else..

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else..

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school ….

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive..

I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore..

When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get o….

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it..

I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all cut together and all of those prec….

I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well ….

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pl….

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought..

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different..

I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to m….

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American..

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think th….

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?.

Guilt is the thief of life..

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessive….

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on..

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies..