I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.