I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

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.

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.