Actor

I'm not a control maniac.

Politics is not really my thing.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.

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.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

I'm an atheist.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

I was never a fanatical movie person.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

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

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

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

I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it.