“You don’t have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It’s like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.”

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn’t do just one thing.

I’ll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That’s what I’m normally seen as, you know.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true… I’ve never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.