The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

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

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

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.