I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.