Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.