All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.