You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

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.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

All of our health is basically genetics.