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.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.