When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

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

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.