Good acting is consistency of performance.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.