I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.