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

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.