If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.