This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.