Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 - 71 years old. It's kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, "Yup. That's exactly what I look like."

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