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

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.