Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.