When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.

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.

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

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.