An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

All I am is what I'm going after.