I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

My face is my career.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

The miracle of everyday living is the blessed breath of life.

Learn to discover your divine potential.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

I'm all for the path of least resistance.

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.