I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.