Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

It's not personal, it's strictly business

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.

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.