Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.