When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.