You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.