Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.