A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

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.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.