I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.

Where does fiction end and reality begin?

I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.

The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.