The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.