I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.