“The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.”

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know

You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.

That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.

Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.