Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.

When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.

I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.