Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

Please, I need you to save my ass.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.