I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.