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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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