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

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

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

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

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

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.