If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.

If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.