I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.