I'm going to quit writing.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.