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

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.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

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.

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.

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