If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

Your best posture is your next posture.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.