I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.