The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.