I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

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 wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

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

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.