I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

I don't even own a car.

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."