Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.