With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.