My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.