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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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