I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?