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

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

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.

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

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."

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

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