Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity..

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information..

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other pe….

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to….

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours..

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study..

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die..

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement..

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do..

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful..

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins -….

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're….

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy..

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations..

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams..

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists..