Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.