All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.