I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

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

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.