My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

Either I act or I die.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.