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

Without coffee something’s missing

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

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

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.

There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.