You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

My whole life has been one big improvisation.