There's So Much Crap Talked About Acting.

I Think I'm More Bonded, Emotionally And In A Craft Sense, To Films That Tell Extraordinary Stories About Extraordinary Destinies.

I Think That Shakespeare Had His Male Side And His Female Side Extremely Well Developed. And This Was A Great Quality Of The Elizabethan, All-around Renaissance Man. They Were Not Afraid Of Their Male Side And Their Female Side Co-existing. This Somewhere Along The Line Got Lost. And Then It Got Misunderstood.

Working In Film, If You Work With Great Directors, You Learn That After Every Take You Must Let Go. Sitting With My Wife At The Academy Awards, We Both Let The Moment Just Go.

Fifteen Years Before I Became A Screen Actor, I Was In The Theatre. A Lot Of My Work Was Comedy, Which I Loved Doing. It's Harder.

The Camera Does Not Like Acting. The Camera Is Only Interested In Filming Behaviour. So You Damn Well Learn Your Lines Until You Know Them Inside Out, While Standing On Your Head!