Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.