I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.