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

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

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

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

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.