Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

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 played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

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

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.