To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

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

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

I thank you for not snoring.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

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.