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.

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

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

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.