Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.