Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Yes, burn your bridges.

Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.

She did it the hard way.