As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

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.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.