Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

Not every secret must be solved

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

Hate can pardon more than love.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.