"It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by the..." — Brian Dennehy

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.