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 not moving forward, you're falling back.

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

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.

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

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

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