Zitate

On stage your job as actor is to present and show the story by your behavior, body language, and vocal work. In film, you musn't. You just have to be. You are...and it's mostly intuitive. The amount of characterization you do is very minimal. In fact, you try not to act at all. It's actually better that way, and it's taken me years to learn that.

Most everybody today that's young is operating under the insane idea that what we've got going on is the best that there is. But it's not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We're fed imagery that's really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It's a sad and depressing thing.

Mark Twain is something precious to me. It's my side arm through life.

On returning to theatre a month after his then wife Dixie Carter had died: I canceled five shows because of what was going on. I flew to L.A. to do Thousand Oaks and turned on my cellphone and heard that Dixie had another stroke on top of the cancer and I turned right around on Southwest. Look ... I need to work. If I don't work, I could sit down and contemplate suicide. My wife was no quitter ... she would be telling me to get out there to do my work and that's what I'm doing.