I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.