Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. Everyone opens up to one another right away. That's a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.