Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. And if you give too much away, you have nothing to take for yourself and put onscreen. If people feel like they know you too well, they won't be able to indentify with the character you're trying to portray. Or they'll feel that you're just playing yourself, and then you just become a personality actor. And that's the death of any actor.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

You have to be a master to teach.

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.