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 enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

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 dont think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

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.

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

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