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

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

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

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."

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.