You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.