As a kid I didn’t root for the bad guys.
You don’t just play a part. You’ve got to earn the right to play it.
Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?
If you don’t co-operate you’re gonna suffer from fistophobia.
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing. It makes it more personal.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don’t call me late for supper.
If you’re an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.
I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character – do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.
The director respects what they’ve hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you’re doing.
Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it’s a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...
Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.
I will not hesitate. Not for a second.
I think it’s important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
One regret I have: I didn’t get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.