People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me something about yourself, which you don't want to reveal. Accessing that hidden side is what good acting is all about. And there are only a handful of people in the entire United States who interest me as actors, who surprise me. Even people who write about it, don't know anything about good performance. At least when you work at General Motors, you know something about cars.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

I've always been interested in science fiction