I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.