I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.

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.

Either I act or I die.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.