Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Acting is an empty and useless profession.
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.