Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.

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.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.