When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.
Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. . . Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.