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

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

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.