“Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.”

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM

I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.

It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.

Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.

I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.

I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.

I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music.