I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'

Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.