If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellec….

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God..

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me..

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever….

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down..

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf..

She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a ….

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and the….

I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it….

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic..

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball..

Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor….

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar..

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is..

It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, th….

Death ends a life, not a relationship..

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. ….

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what ….

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself..

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable..

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile..