Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who reall….

But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different way….

I just don't think I'm a very good singer..

I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of fl….

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters..

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant..

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that..

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted..

It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a pi….

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system..

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that the….

I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're….

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag….

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success..

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films..

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anythin….

We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. Th….

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier..

Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved..

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a comme….

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people..