Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.