Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.