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

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

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.

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

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.