If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

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

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.

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

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

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.