It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

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.

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.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.