I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I'm hardly a saint.

My body of work means nothing to me.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

There is no right in acting.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.

If youre lucky as you get older you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.