I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

Every friend we have represents a new world, a world that may not have existed had they not come into our life.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

In my life mission is everything.. Even if i was a municipal chairman, I would have worked as hard as a CM