The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.