I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

Death is the great transition.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.