I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.