I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, "I'm home." I felt really at peace here.

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.