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.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

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

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.