Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.