I Am A Greedy Actor In The

When You Look At Me You Don't Immediately Imagine A Very Very Glamorous Icon, So It's Only In The Theater That I Get To Do These Experiments. I've Been An Actor About 51 Years Now. I've Played Everything From An 8-year-old Black Boy To A 72-year-old French Matriarch, And They Hardly Hire You To Do That On Tv.

The Director's Job Is Full Of All Sorts Of Annoyances And Details - Like How Many Cars Are On The Street. Ugh. I Don't Want It. I Like My Gig. And I Feel That For The Next 30 Years Or So I Can Keep Learning More About It.

I Went Into The Family Business. To Me, It Was The Norm And Not The Exception.

Everyone's Life Is A Train Wreck. Your Life Happens To Be A High-class Train Wreck.

Women Are Usually Only Interesting To Studio Executives When They Are Fecund, Between The Ages Of 15 And 30. I Decided To Get Through The Really Tough Patch, Around 50, By Just Cutting My Price And Playing Ten Years Older. I Didn't Want To Have To Wait Until I Was An Old Lady To Play One.