I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

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

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.