If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.