I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.