Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Either I act or I die.

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

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.