I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.