I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.