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

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

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

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 literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

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

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.