By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.