But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.