The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

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.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.