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.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

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

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.

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