If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

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

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

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.

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.

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