I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.