If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

It's not personal, it's strictly business

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.