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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure