One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.