Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.