You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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.

All I am is what I'm going after.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

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.