The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.