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."

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

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

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

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.

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.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright