Guard your good mood.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

We are the choices we have made.

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.