They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.