I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.