The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.