A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

Theater helps people keep sane.

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.