Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.