Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves