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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.

I don't throw things or yell.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.