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.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

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

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.