There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.