There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.