Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Acting, is not a profession for adults.

You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.