And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.