I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

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

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.