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

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Actors should never give interviews.

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.

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

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.