Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.