Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.