Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

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