It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.