I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.