Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

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

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

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

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.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.