You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.