I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.

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

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.

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

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

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

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