It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought that I was doing this" but basically what they really want, especially if they wrote it, is they want you to do it as they imagined it. It's virtually impossible.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.