If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.