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

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

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

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

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

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

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.