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

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 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.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

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.