Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I don't throw things or yell.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Politics is not really my thing.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

I don't need to be liked.

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.