You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

All of our health is basically genetics.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.